22 Jun
1999
22 Jun
'99
11:16 p.m.
--- Allison J Parent <allisonp(a)world.std.com> wrote:
After I wrote:
In high school, I had enough of a junk box to build most of the Elf with
scrounged parts (I did screw up and stick in some 4001's instead of the
4011's the first time I assembled the Elf. It didn't work so well ;-)
Now, my junk box is *much* deeper. I could probably assemble an entire
PET PCB and Amiga PCB, just from spares. Thankfully, I don't have to.
-ethan
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I just bought
the bare [Quest Elf] board.
It was available as a kit but rarely did I ever buy the kit if I could get
the bare board. I had (and still have) a very deep junk box. 
23 Jun
23 Jun
7:40 a.m.
In high school, I had enough of a junk box to build
most of the Elf with
scrounged parts (I did screw up and stick in some 4001's instead of the
4011's the first time I assembled the Elf. It didn't work so well ;-)
By time the elf was new the junk box was going on maybe 15years old and
I'd been in engineering for a while and it kept growing... ;)
Some here would find my junkbox(more like about 10-12 xerox paper boxes)
a major dig site for history in themselves! I also have spares
(catagorized and all in bins) that are quite old like the odd 1101 (from
when I first worked with them in 72!) or TIMX10 one of the first cheap
germainium 1GHz transistors. Products post 1985ish are rather thin
though. It's why I design more with TTL... I have a few coffee cans full
of it!!
Allison
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